straight edge
Q&A: Al Barile of SSD on the Reissue of ‘The Kids Will Have Their Say’
November 7, 2023 Justin Norton
Boston hardcore legends SS Decontrol (SSD) reissue classic The Kids Will Have Their Say. Guitarist Al Barile talks past, present and future.
Earth Crisis Premiere “Smash or Be Smashed” Via the Decibel Flexi Series
March 24, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Hear and acquire this Earth Crisis flexi disc single, featuring a brand new recording, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!
Earth Crisis To Release “Smash or Be Smashed” Via the Decibel Flexi Series
February 26, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, March 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from straight edge hardcore heroes Earth Crisis.
Liquid Death Now Available Online and In Stores
January 24, 2019 Emily Bellino
Liquid Death is the most metal water we’ve ever had.
Earth Crisis: A Firestorm to Purify (Straight Edge Book Excerpt)
November 23, 2017 Emily Bellino
Read a new excerpt from Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History.
A Straight Edge “Timeline”
April 7, 2014 Shawn Macomber
Check out a raging slab of unadulterated, all-star straight-edge hardcore off the upcoming EP A Place Beyond from Boston’s Test of Time below — the precursor to a much-anticipated July full-length release By Design. “Having been involved in the hardcore scene for about fifteen years each,’Timeline’ is a reflection about the feelings that originally draw…
Tales From the Metalnomicon: Eleanor Henderson
February 15, 2013 Shawn Macomber
Welcome to Tales From the Metalnomicon, a new twice-monthly column delving into the surprisingly vast world of heavy metal-tinged/inspired literature and metalhead authors… If any subcultural phenomenon has ever truly earned the designation “stranger than fiction,” surely it must be the late eighties/early nineties youth crew/krishnacore straight edge scene. Yet, outside of a couple oral…